Sighting for July 17, 2021
Chris Herz & Tedi Marville
Eastern Neck NWR, Rock Hall
Kent County, MD
- Zebra Swallowtail 83
- Black Swallowtail 6
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
- Spicebush Swallowtail 9
- Cabbage White 6
- Clouded Sulphur 1
- Orange Sulphur 16
- Cloudless Sulphur 1
- Sleepy Orange 1
- Gray Hairstreak 5
- Red-banded Hairstreak 1
- Eastern Tailed-Blue 6
- American Snout 2
- Variegated Fritillary 9
- Silvery Checkerspot 4
- Pearl Crescent 6
- American Lady 1
- Red Admiral 1
- Common Buckeye 1
- Red-spotted Purple 2
- Common Wood-Nymph 4
- Monarch 1
- Silver-spotted Skipper 34
- Horace's Duskywing 10
- Wild Indigo Duskywing 1
- Common Checkered-Skipper 1
- Least Skipper 4
- Little Glassywing 1
- Sachem 5
- Broad-winged Skipper 33
- Dun Skipper 1
- Salt Marsh Skipper 4
Gray Hairstreak
Red-banded Hairstreak
Silvery Checkerspot
Sleepy Orange
Hot & humid, low 90 degrees. Sightings primarily from the butterfly garden, visitor’s center, and the picnic area. The blackberry lily, liatris, coneflowers, sweet pepperbush in the garden were drawing the most butterflies. Sleepy orange laying eggs on senna marilandica.